Affect
Border crossing
Borders and desire
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Eastern borders of Europe
embodied
emotion
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Ethnosexuality
Gender and borders
National imaginaries
Political desires
Postsocialism and migration
senses
sensory
Sexualised borders
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- ISBN 9781526165213
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Borders of desire takes a novel approach to the study of borders: rather than seeing them only as obstacles to the fulfillment of human desires, this collection focuses on how borders can also be productive of desire. Based on long-term ethnographic engagement with sites along the eastern borders of Europe, particularly in the Baltics and the Balkans, the studies in this volume illuminate how gendered and sexualized desires are generated by the existence of borders and how they are imagined. As the chapters show, borders can create new desires expressed as aspirations, resentments, and actions including physical movements across borders for pleasure or work, or collective enactments of political ideals or resistance. The collection also shows how the persistent east/west symbolic border continues to act as a source of these desires in European political and social life.
Elissa Helms is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna
Tuija Pulkkinen is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki
